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4th homemade video (April 26, 2020)
Soap Opera

On April 26, 2020 John wrote:"Hello All, Home Made Video # 4 is a new original song that is called “soap opera”. I hope you like it."

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The other 'one song concerts':

- Click here for Red River Valley (April 5, 2020)
- Click here for Better times Will Come (April 12, 2020)
- Click here for Polly Wally (April 19, 2020)
- Click here for Soap Opera (April 26, 2020)
- Click here for Maya May I, (May 1, 2020)
- Click here for My Creole Belle (May 10, 2020)
- Click here for Careless Love (May 17, 2020)
- Click here for You Can Run (May 24, 2020)
- Muting the Sea (May 31,2020)
- Click here for Ignorance and Privilege (June 7, 2020)
- Click here for The Mercy of the Wheels. (June 14, 2020)
- If I Could Forget To Breathe (June 21, 2020)
- Let them in (June 28, 2020)
- Unblind The Referee (July 5, 2020)
- The Dutchman (July 12, 2020)
- Morningside (July 19, 2020)
- Cowboy Song (July 26, 2020)
- That's How Legends Are Made (August 2, 2020)
- If Not Now (August 9, 2020)
- Arroyo Seco (August 16, 2020)
- Shenandoah (August 23, 2020)
- Outside (August 30, 2020)
- Outnumbered (September 6, 2020)
- Brown shirts (September 13, 2020)
- Jack’s Crows (September 20, 2020)
- Where No Monument Stands (September 27, 2020)
- Blue Chalk (October 4, 2020)
- Zuly (October 11, 2020)
- The Sentinel (October 18, 2020)
- Where The Bottles Break (October 25 2020)
- If I Could (November 1, 2020)
- Particle & Wave (November 8, 2020)
- True in Time (November 15, 2020)
- Edgar The Party Man ( November 22, 2020)
- The Water is Wide (November 29, 2020)
- The Streets of Laredo (December 6, 2020)
- Spanish is the Loving Tongue (December 13, 2020)
- Christmas Bells (December 20, 2020)
- Riverside (December 27. 2020) Recorded earlier
- Auld Lang Syne (January 3, 2021)

Lyrics Soap Opera

When I'm washing dishes
I get flashes of the places I have been
They say when you're down and out
It's hard to find the strength to start again
Now we find ourselves in a place
That we have never been before
So now I'm gathering moss
Because this stone will not be rolling out the door

We're not the only ones
Who are the lonely ones
We need old things to ground us
New ideas to give us hope
Till then I'm big on running water
And I use it with a little bit of soap

Well, not knowing is the worst thing
If anything will ever be the same
There's little money coming in
And the bill collectors won't forget my name
They say the government will help me
But they cannot seem to tell me when
While we're waiting on the answers
I'm guessing that we're on our own again

We're on our own again
To the unknown again
We need old things to ground us
New ideas to give us hope
Right now I'm big on running water
And I use it with a little bit of soap
Till then I'm big on the running water
And I use it with a little bit of soap

by John Gorka
The longest April, 2020